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- DirectorRobert J. FlahertyStarsAllakariallakAlice NevalingaCunayouIn this silent predecessor to the modern documentary, film-maker Robert J. Flaherty spends one year following the lives of Nanook and his family, Inuits living in the Arctic Circle.
- DirectorSteve JamesStarsWilliam GatesArthur AgeeEmma GatesA film following the lives of two inner-city Chicago boys who struggle to become college basketball players on the road to going professional.
- DirectorD.A. PennebakerStarsBob DylanAlbert GrossmanBob NeuwirthDocumentary covering Bob Dylan's 1965 tour of England, which includes appearances by Joan Baez and Donovan.
- DirectorGodfrey ReggioStarsEdward AsnerPat BenatarJerry BrownA collection of expertly photographed phenomena with no conventional plot. The footage focuses on the relationship between nature, humanity, and technology.Modo poético: "Hace énfasis en la asociaciones visuales, las cualidades tonales o rítmicas, los pasajes descriptivos y la organización formal". "Guarda cercanía con el cine experimental y de vanguardia".
- DirectorMichael MooreStarsMichael MooreRoger B. SmithRhonda BrittonAfter General Motors closes its factory in Flint, Michigan, eliminating 35,000 jobs, filmmaker Michael Moore undertakes a quixotic quest to interview General Motors' chairman, Roger B. Smith.
- DirectorRalph SteinerWillard Van DykeStarsMorris CarnovskyA prescient documentary about city planning, which presents idyllic suburbs and nuclear families as a solution to the chaos, poverty and social decay of industrialized inner cities.
- DirectorLeni RiefenstahlStarsAdolf HitlerHermann GöringMax AmannThe infamous propaganda film of the 1934 Nazi Party rally in Nuremberg, Germany.
- DirectorLouie PsihoyosStarsRichard O'BarryLouie PsihoyosHardy JonesUsing state-of-the-art equipment, a group of activists, led by renowned dolphin trainer Ric O'Barry, infiltrate a cove near Taijii, Japan to expose both a shocking instance of animal abuse and a serious threat to human health.
- DirectorConnie FieldStarsLola WeixelMargaret WrightLyn ChildsDocumentary about women working in factories during WWII and resultant loss of jobs after the war. Five women tell their stories. Fascinating clips of racist, sexist propaganda of the era.
- DirectorFrederick WisemanDocumentary filmmaker Frederick Wiseman takes us inside Northeast High School as a fly on the wall to observe the teachers and how they interact with the students.Modo Observacional: Vida cotidiana de los sujetos, observada por una cámara indiscreta.
- DirectorAlbert MayslesDavid MayslesCharlotte ZwerinStarsPaul BrennanCharles McDevittJames BakerFour dogged door-to-door Bible salesmen travel from Boston to Florida on a seemingly futile quest to sell luxury editions of the Good Book to working-class Catholics.Modo Observacional: Vida cotidiana de los sujetos, observada por una cámara indiscreta.
- DirectorChris HegedusD.A. PennebakerStarsJames CarvilleGeorge StephanopoulosHeather BeckelA documentary of the Bill Clinton 1992 presidential campaign and the organization who ran it.Modo Observacional: Vida cotidiana de los sujetos, observada por una cámara indiscreta.
- DirectorJoe BerlingerBruce SinofskyStarsJames HetfieldKirk HammettLars UlrichThe iconic metal band struggles for two years to create their album St. Anger, dealing with alcoholism, the loss of their bass player, and the challenge of working with a psychotherapist.Modo Observacional: Vida cotidiana de los sujetos, observada por una cámara indiscreta.
- DirectorDziga VertovStarsMikhail KaufmanElizaveta SvilovaA man travels around a city with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzling invention.Modo Reflexivo: "Incrementa nuestra conciencia respecto a la construcción, por parte de la película, de la representación de la realidad".
- DirectorTimothy AschNapoleon A. ChagnonA documentary in which an ax fight breaks out during a dispute between tribes in a Yanomami village.Modo Reflexivo: "Incrementa nuestra conciencia respecto a la construcción, por parte de la película, de la representación de la realidad".
- DirectorPeter WatkinsStarsMichael AspelPeter GrahamDave BaldwinA docudrama depicting a hypothetical nuclear attack on Britain.Modo Reflexivo: "Incrementa nuestra conciencia respecto a la construcción, por parte de la película, de la representación de la realidad".
- DirectorStan BrakhageAt a morgue, forensic pathologists conduct autopsies of the corpses assigned.Modo expresivo:"Hace énfasis en el aspecto subjetivo o expresivo del involucramiento del cineasta mismo con el tema; trata de acrecentar la capacidad de respuesta del público respecto a este involucramiento. Rechaza las nociones de objetividad y favorece la evocación y el sentimiento".
- DirectorRea TajiriGroundbreaking and haunting, this film is a poetic composition of recorded history and non-recorded memory. Filmmaker Rea Tajiri's family was among the 120,000 Japanese and Japanese Americans who were imprisoned in internment camps after the attack on Pearl Harbor. And like so many who were in the camps, Tajiri's family wrapped their memories of that experience in a shroud of silence and forgetting. Ruminating on the difficult nature of representing the past - especially a past that exists outside traditional historic accounts - Tajiri blends interviews, memorabilia, a pilgrimage to the camp where her mother was interned, and the story of her father, who had been drafted pre-Pearl Harbor and returned to find his family's house removed from its site. Throughout, she surveys the impact of images (real images, desired images made real, and unrealized dream images). The film draws from a variety of sources: Hollywood spectacle, government propaganda, newsreels, memories of the living, and spirits of the dead, as well as Tajiri's own intuitions of a place she has never visited, but of which she has a memory. More than simply calling attention to the gaps in the story of the Japanese American internment, this important film raises questions about collective history - questions that prompt Tajiri to daringly re-imagine and re-create what has been stolen and what has been lost.Modo expresivo:"Hace énfasis en el aspecto subjetivo o expresivo del involucramiento del cineasta mismo con el tema; trata de acrecentar la capacidad de respuesta del público respecto a este involucramiento. Rechaza las nociones de objetividad y favorece la evocación y el sentimiento".
- DirectorMarlon RiggsStarsMarlon RiggsMichael BellKerrigan BlackA documentary about the experiences of black homosexual men living in the United States of America.Modo expresivo:"Hace énfasis en el aspecto subjetivo o expresivo del involucramiento del cineasta mismo con el tema; trata de acrecentar la capacidad de respuesta del público respecto a este involucramiento. Rechaza las nociones de objetividad y favorece la evocación y el sentimiento".
- DirectorPatricio GuzmánStarsPatricio GuzmánVincent DavyHortensia AllendeAfter decades of fascist rule in Chile, Patricio Guzman returns to his country to screen his documentary, Battle of Chile, which until the time of the filming was banned by authorities. His audience, a new generation of Chileans who remember little of the revolution and ensuing coup reflect on their experience of watching the film after so many years of suppression.Modo expresivo:"Hace énfasis en el aspecto subjetivo o expresivo del involucramiento del cineasta mismo con el tema; trata de acrecentar la capacidad de respuesta del público respecto a este involucramiento. Rechaza las nociones de objetividad y favorece la evocación y el sentimiento".
- DirectorAri FolmanStarsAri FolmanRon Ben-YishaiRonny DayagAn Israeli film director interviews fellow veterans of the 1982 invasion of Lebanon to reconstruct his own memories of his term of service in that conflict.Modo expresivo:"Hace énfasis en el aspecto subjetivo o expresivo del involucramiento del cineasta mismo con el tema; trata de acrecentar la capacidad de respuesta del público respecto a este involucramiento. Rechaza las nociones de objetividad y favorece la evocación y el sentimiento".
- DirectorRobert DrewStarsRobert DrewHubert H. HumphreyMuriel Buck HumphreyCinéma vérité feature that follows presidential hopefuls John F. Kennedy and Hubert H. Humphrey during the 1960 Wisconsin primary.
- DirectorJohn HustonStarsMark W. ClarkJohn HustonDirector John Huston documents the Battle of San Pietro Infine in December 1943.
- DirectorNick BroomfieldJoan ChurchillStarsGregory AbingClara AlvesJackie HallA documentary about women's basic training in Fort Georgia.